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Taking Flight - Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
by Hallion, Richard P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0195160355
- ISBN 13
- 9780195160352
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003 First printing signed by the author on title page: "To Hal with all best wishes, Dick Hallion 1903-2003 100th Anni. of Kitty Hawk" with black sharpie. xxi, 531 pages. 20 chapters. Loaded with vintage photos. 4to 10 1/8" tall, Blue grey cloth and white boards stamped in gilt on spine. Fine dust jacket. Fine/ Fine. .
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- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025600
- Title
- Taking Flight - Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War
- Author
- Hallion, Richard P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195160355
- ISBN 13
- 9780195160352
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Signed
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- Gilt
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